42 VARIOUS FOOD-PLANTS 
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Fic. 31.—Almond (Prunus Amygdalus, Rose Family, Rosacew). <A, twig 
bearing one unopened winter-bud and a cluster of young leaves ex- 
panding from another. B, a flowering branch. C, a single flower. 
D, the same cut vertically to show the single pistil with its small ovary at 
the base of an urn-like continuation of the flower-stalk at the rim of 
which are borne three sets of organs, namely: the stamens which are 
numerous and in two rows; then outside of these a single row of deli- 
cate enveloping organs, the petals, which in the almond flower are 
‘ We have here an example of a ‘‘complete”’ flower or one which has all 
the kinds of organs which are commonly present; that is to say, besides the 
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